'Swiss Army Man' Reveals the Making of Daniel Radcliffe’s Gaseous Corpse Manny
In Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan’s idiosyncratic indie Swiss Army Man, Paul Dano plays a suicidal man stranded on a desert island whose loneliness is alleviated when he encounters Daniel Radcliffe’s Manny — who, it turns out, is a corpse with a severe farting habit. What ensues is one of the strangest and silliest musical-fantasy-dramas to hit theaters in recent years, and now, the creators of the film are pulling back the curtain on how they created their gaseous main character in a featurette (watch it above).
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Makeup effects producer Jason Hamer talks about his experience coming aboard Swiss Army Man, a project that initially struck him as so bizarre that, upon reading the script, he says he wrote the directing duo, “What is wrong with you…I’m in.” Tasked with creating a lifelike replica of Radcliffe that could sustain the weight of Dano (who “rides” Manny across the ocean), Hamer and his crew set about the painstaking job of constructing a lifelike mold via a process that’s presented, in up-close-and-personal view, in this new behind-the-scenes peek.
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As Hamer says, “Things that have never been done before — that’s what makes it exciting.” And no doubt, his work on Swiss Army Man helped make it a film unlike any moviegoers have seen. Peek at the toil that went into crafting Manny in the clip above, and catch the film in theaters now.
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